Wrapped vase [slide].

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Author/Artist: 
Yelle, Richard Wilfred.
Publisher: 
[Boston, Mass.], 1985.
Description: 
glass, wire, spray paint, pencil ; 58 cm. x 20 cm.
Juror: 
Buechner, Thomas S.
Frantz, Susanne K.
Technique: 
blown
Etching
Format of Material: 
Slides & Transparencies
Bib ID: 
102469
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Location: 
Slides
Call Number: 
Yelle, Richard Wilfred; NGR 7, no. 98
Notes: 
Description in New Glass Review: Blown Blenko vase with wire, spray paint, and pencil; acid-etched.
Description in CMoG glass object database: Colorless non-lead glass; blank is acid-etched, covered with oil paint mixed with wax medium, drawn on with pencil, spray painted, wire added. Tall, sloping shouldered cylinder with roughly shorn altered lip; vase has been acid-etched, then, starting slightly below lip entire body has been wrapped with thin wire, possibly bits of shredded paper and covered with orange-colored wax medium, while soft medium has been randomly marked with pencil, black spray paint, then loosely wrapped with heavy black barbed wire; base is covered with sheet of paper and wax medium; signed on bottom of base "Yelle 85".
Technique: Blown and etching.
Type: Vase.
Image orientation: portrait.
Published in: New Glass Review 7, p. 29, no. 98.
Master slide condition: Scattered residue and scattered scratches.
Slide 1 condition: Dust.
Slide 2 condition: Scattered scratches and scattered residue.
Slide 3 condition: Scattered residue.
Copies in drawer: 3
Series: 
New Glass Review 7; entry no. 42.3.85
New Glass Review winner ; NGR 7 no. 98